Flying only a few hundred feet off the ground, Russell opens the window of his Cesna aircraft and carefully drops a parachute over a guerrilla camp. In a bag suspended from the parachute are a Bible and other Christian materials, sometimes including a shortwave radio pre-tuned to two Christian stations that broadcast the Word of God.
"I've been shot at a few times," Russell says, "and one of my aircraft had multiple bullet holes in it."
The danger is real, but Russell (a co-worker with The Voice of the Martyrs) and his team are committed to delivering the Word of God where there is no conventional means of delivery. Being on the ground would be even more dangerous.
"I have seen many guerrillas turn from their violent ways after reading the Bible and listening to our radio broadcasts," Russell explains. "If we want peace in Columbia, we have to point people, even terrorists, to the true source of peace and forgiveness".
"When will we evolve out of our useless appendages?"
Whenever you hear an evolutionist make this kind of statement, don't fall for it! They are using the power of language to push their agenda.
This is the title of an article in the February 2011 issue of Popular Science, by Natalie Wolchover. NOooo, we won't evolve, and WE HAVE NOooo useless appendages. No part of our bodies is useless in our Creator's eyes!
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It is exceedingly interesting that the article answers the question this way:
"Never. We're probably stuck with our appendix, pinky toes, tailbone and just about all of our other evolutionary holdovers. Wisdom teeth may eventually go, but major changes like losing an appendage (teeth included) take millions and millions of years - who knows if humans will even be around that long.
And then the article says some things that a Bible-believing creationist can mostly agree with!!!!
"What's more, most of our seemingly useless vestiges are actually helpful.
"The coccyx, or tailbone, is an attachment point of a number of muscles at the pelvis. We need it for upright locomotion. It would be catastrophic if it went away."
"The appendix ... serves as a kind of safe house for the microbes that aid in digestion. Each of us has 900 to 1,600 species of bacteria in our gut to make sure we have a healthy immune system. If one takes over, or they get all flushed out by a disease, then the appendix works like a holding tank for the good bacteria."
"Even the pinky toe helps keep our balance and diffuses impact throughout the foot when we run."
Now here's something only an evolutionist can say and sound very scientific:
"The muscles behind our ears have very little impact on reproductive success, there's no way to select against them. In other words, the ability to ear-wiggle doesn't interfere with having kids."
A creationist's answer is that ear-wiggling muscles show that God has a sense of humor :)
"Be still and know that I am God..." (Psalm 46:10a). Stillness is growing extinct in our world. From the time our eyes pop open in the morning until the moment we drift off to sleep at night, our lives are in a state of perpetual motion. The vast majority of people have chosen to fill virtually every waking moment with sensory stimuli to inform, amuse, entertain, educate, and generally distract them so that they are rarely left alone to themselves ... or perhaps to God. It is almost as if they have decided that silence is the enemy.
Yet just the opposite is true. God often uses the silent intervals in our lives to speak to us.
According to the psalm writer, stillness and knowing God go hand in hand. It is virtually impossible for a person to know God if he does not stop long enough to hear Him. The word translated "be still" is actually one that means "to stop striving." It also carries the idea of "relaxing" or "dropping one's hand in surrender." These words were written against the backdrop of a world that was wracked with earth-shattering change, trouble, and fear. And into that context God spoke two simple words: "Be still."
